“People talk about Ivany, about attracting young people to rural communities, about growing the economy…” Leif Helmer stops. “We have a great community, a great school. We don’t intend to lose that.”

If you’re looking for a flashing-neon-sign example of how Byzantine, bizarre, and just plain nonsensical our province’s education bureaucracy can be, you might begin by considering last Wednesday’s non-decision by the South Shore Regional School Board to not revisit its carefully nuanced 2013 plan to close two small rural elementary schools in Lunenburg county. First,...

This Saturday, Nova Scotia Education Minister Karen Casey announced all schools in the province would be pre-emptively closed to students for their safety. The closures are a response to a planned work-to-rule action from teachers — in other words, the teachers had promised to start working to the letter of their contract starting on Monday. That...

The McNeil government is apparently trying to find an escape from the “public fury” over its decision to close the province’s schools to students. The school closure was announced Saturday by Education Minister Karen Casey. The government also called the legislature back into session at 10am today, and said it would table legislation that will force a […]